Bunting v. Oregon

Bunting v. Oregon
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 18, 1916 Reargued January 19, 1917 Decided April 9, 1917
Full case name	Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error v. The State of Oregon
Citations	243 U.S. 426 (more) 37 S. Ct. 435; 61 L. Ed. 830; 1917 U.S. LEXIS 2008
Case history
Prior	71 Or. 259 (1914)
Holding
The court affirmed the decision of the Oregon Supreme Court, which upheld the state law, for a ten-hour work day, as constitutional.
Court membership
Chief Justice Edward D. White Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · Willis Van Devanter Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · John H. Clarke
Case opinions
Majority	McKenna, joined by Holmes, Day, Pitney, Clarke
Dissent	White
Dissent	Van Devanter
Dissent	McReynolds
Brandeis took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1917), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ten-hour work day, which was accepted for both men and women,^[1] but the state minimum-wage laws were not changed until 20 years later.

Future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter, along with future Oregon Supreme Court justices George M. Brown and John O. Bailey, represented Oregon on the appeal. W. Lair Thompson and former Senator for Oregon Charles W. Fulton represented Bunting.^[1]